St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-22
THE NIGHT SCHOOLS.
More Than a Thousand Pupils of.

More Than a Thousand Pupils OF
All Ages Are Attending Them.
The night schools have just gotten
well in operation again for the coming
winter.
Night schools are now open in the
Franklin, Madison, Cleveland, Adams,
Jackson, Mcclellan, German, Van
Buren, and Humboldt buildings, with a
total attendance of about LOO, ranging
in age from fourteen to fifty, and en-
pl0ying about thirty-five instructors in
all. The schools are open every even
ing of the week, excepting Saturday and
Sunday evenings, for two-hOur sessions.
from 7:30 to $50 p. m. Large
as the attendance now is, many more
applications are being received daily,
and new rooms will be opened in few
days i'll the Cleveland, Gorman, Jack
son and Douglass buildings.
In the schools are found the brightest,
most industrious and ambitious of
fourteen up. Here, side by side with
the bright boy of fourteen, is an old,
gray-haired man, digging patiently
away at his arithmetic or learning how
to write, and at the end of the two
hours So.buSy has he been that he seems
quite surprised to learn that the even
Ing is over. LaborerS, carpenters,
draughtSmen and, in short, mechanics
of all kinds attend these schools every
evening, eager to improve themselves
in writing and reading English and in
the study of arithmetic. It will be a
surprise TO many, if not to the most, of
Che people of st. Paul, to learn that the
americans are numerically much fewer
n Nor thOr, fhn .t,% e
Sweden. Norway. Germany, bohemia,
Iungary and Poland, and that the best
Hld Understanding members of these
EhoolS are these same foreigners, who
seem to enter into the work with the
utmost energy, and, of course, as nat
ural result, make rapid progress in all
branches, and especially in writing.
THE COST OF NIGHT SCHOOLS.
The principals of the different build
ings receive $3.50 and the teachers 81 for
each evening actually employed in
teaching. The ianitOrS in buildings
where one room is used are paid 81
cents, and If more than one be used %
cents for each additional room. The
engineers in buildings like the Madison
and Franklin, where they have steam
plants, receive 40 cents per evening. So
the cost OF maintaining the schools may
be readily computed. Here are the
teachers:
The Franklin-D. j. Murphy, principal;
Miss NedoDyty, Miss Anderson, Miss Nc
Kenna and Mrs. Martin.
The Madison-George C. Smith, principal;
Miss Parsons, Miss Rudy, Miss Wallace,
Mr. Jerka and Mr.. Staedfelt
The Adams-The Misses Dougherty.
Jackson-Miss NJ. Madigan, principal; Mrs.
Zahonyi. Miss Lindsey and Miss Walsh.
The Gorman-Miss NJ, Phelan, principal;
Mrs c. f, Williams. assistant
The McClellan-Mrs. NJ. A. Cummins and
Miss Maggie Nolan.
The Van Buren-Miss Hannah G. Ryan,
principal, and Mr.. Friesenhahu, assistant.
The cleveland-S. a. Farnsworth, princi-
pal; Mrs; Rolls, Miss Bittner, Mr., LANCE and
Mr. Eiselmeyer.
The Humboldt-J. c. Bryant, principal:
Mrs H. Dorm, Miss Ebert, Miss l.. Meilike
and Mr.. Morris Helm.
The attendance at the different build
1ngs is: Franklin, 1S5; Madison, 1870;
Adams, 90: Jackson, $50; German, so:
Mcclellan. so: Van Bnren, SO; Cleve-
land. $50, and Humboldt 40.